octave-forge packages not automatically available

Tue Dec 8 21:42:00 GMT 2009

Hi,
After installing both octave 3.2.3-1 and octave-forge 20090607-2, the functions in the various octave-forge packages are not automatically available within octave.
Adding a line such as "pkg load foo" in ~/.octaverc is a workaround that makes the functions in octave-forge package foo available to an individual user. **This should probably be documented in /usr/share/doc/octave-forge.**
As an alternative. the file /usr/share/octave/3.2.3/m/startup/octaverc could be patched to load all functions in /usr/share/octave/packages and /usr/lib/octave/packages on startup. This would be effective for all users.
Thanks Marco for the all the good packaging work with octave.
Regards
Jim Phillips
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